This list shows 125 groundcover plants that are native to your location, and are carried in nurseries. Plants are ordered by their popularity in gardening applications.
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1. Orange Coneflower
Rudbeckia fulgida
2. Little Bluestem
Schizachyrium scoparium
3. Butterfly Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa
4. Black-Eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
5. Northern Sea Oats
Chasmanthium latifolium
6. Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
7. Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
8. Smooth Oxeye
Heliopsis helianthoides
9. Common Sneezeweed
Helenium autumnale
10. Wild Blue Phlox
Phlox divaricata
11. Northern Maidenhair Fern
Adiantum pedatum
12. Christmas Fern
Polystichum acrostichoides
13. Spotted Geranium
Geranium maculatum
14. Pennsylvania Sedge
Carex pensylvanica
15. Purple Love Grass
Eragrostis spectabilis
16. White Heath Aster
Symphyotrichum ericoides
17. Aromatic Aster
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium
18. Blue Mistflower
Conoclinium coelestinum
19. Smooth Blue Aster
Symphyotrichum laeve
20. Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
21. Virginia Spiderwort
Tradescantia virginiana
22. Golden Ragwort
Packera aurea
23. Fringeleaf Wild Petunia
Ruellia humilis
24. Narrowleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
25. Blue Wood Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
26. Feathery False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum racemosum
27. Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
28. Hairy Beardtongue
Penstemon hirsutus
29. Azure Blue Sage
Salvia azurea
30. Sundial Lupine
Lupinus perennis
31. Switchgrass
Panicum virgatum
32. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
33. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
34. Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
35. Spreading Jacob’s Ladder
Polemonium reptans
36. Sideoats Grama
Bouteloua curtipendula
37. New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
38. Spotted Beebalm
Monarda punctata
39. Eastern Prickly Pear
Opuntia humifusa
40. Canada Wild Ginger
Asarum canadense
41. Sweet Coneflower
Rudbeckia subtomentosa
42. Muskingum Sedge
Carex muskingumensis
43. Virginia Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
44. Common Blue Violet
Viola sororia
45. Whorled Milkweed
Asclepias verticillata
46. Common Self-Heal
Prunella vulgaris
47. Bluejacket
Tradescantia ohiensis
48. Woodland Stonecrop
Sedum ternatum
49. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
50. Coralberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
51. Carolina Rose
Rosa carolina
52. Hoary Vervain
Verbena stricta
53. Canada Wild Rye
Elymus canadensis
54. Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
55. Smooth Phlox
Phlox glaberrima
56. White Prairie Clover
Dalea candida
57. Richardson’s Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
58. Starry False Lily Of The Valley
Maianthemum stellatum
59. Stiff Tickseed
Coreopsis palmata
60. Virginia Springbeauty
Claytonia virginica
61. Lapham’s Phlox
Phlox divaricata subsp. laphamii
62. Fringed Loosestrife
Lysimachia ciliata
63. Plantain-Leaved Pussytoes
Antennaria plantaginifolia
64. Cleft Phlox
Phlox bifida
65. American Senna
Senna hebecarpa
66. Eastern Gamagrass
Tripsacum dactyloides
67. Bird’s-Foot Violet
Viola pedata
68. Robin’s Plantain
Erigeron pulchellus
69. Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
70. Rosy Sedge
Carex rosea
71. Hairy Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum pilosum
72. Prairie Goldenrod
Solidago ptarmicoides
73. Prairie Rose
Rosa arkansana
74. Whitetinge Sedge
Carex albicans
75. Jumpseed
Persicaria virginiana
76. Western Silver Aster
Symphyotrichum sericeum
77. Prairie Sundrops
Oenothera pilosella
78. Poverty Oatgrass
Danthonia spicata
79. Meadow Garlic
Allium canadense
80. Lanceleaf Loosestrife
Lysimachia lanceolata
81. Spotted St. John’s Wort
Hypericum punctatum
82. Pale Beardtongue
Penstemon pallidus
83. Hairy White Oldfield Aster
Symphyotrichum pilosum
84. Longbract Spiderwort
Tradescantia bracteata
85. American Beakgrain
Diarrhena obovata
86. Whorled Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
87. Yellow-Fruited Fox Sedge
Carex annectens
88. Prairie Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium campestre
89. Plains Pricklypear
Opuntia macrorhiza
90. Downy Rattlesnake Plantain
Goodyera pubescens
91. Smooth Wild Petunia
Ruellia strepens
92. Parlin’s Pussytoes
Antennaria parlinii
93. Nodding Fescue
Festuca subverticillata
94. Violet Wood-Sorrel
Oxalis violacea
95. Hairy Grama
Bouteloua hirsuta
96. Slender Lespedeza
Lespedeza virginica
97. Early Blue Violet
Viola palmata
98. Smooth Hedgenettle
Stachys tenuifolia
99. Hoary Puccoon
Lithospermum canescens
100. Narrowleaf Stoneseed
Lithospermum incisum
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